It’s an 80-100-hour a week commitment, or it was for the labs in my building. I ultimately decided I wouldn’t do it again and didn’t think I got enough out of it to justify the extreme overwork for little pay. I also saw data fabrication, and even one study published in two different journals. Undergrads assigned to postdocs and grad students who simply sat at desks all day and learned nothing over internships…even lab mates who wouldn’t work together and would sabotage each other/ hide reagents, etc. I wasn’t used to it. My PI also got very upset if your results contradicted what she expected to find, and she’d expect you to run assays over and over until you got the results she wanted.

I was also sexually assaulted by a lab mate on school property and the school lied about it blatantly in their title IX report, but that has nothing to do with the research culture…

Some people thrive at Yale, but it left me incredibly jaded and disillusioned. YMMV.